USPTO Patents Application 09973393

DECLARATION FOR PATENT APPLICATION

Attorney's Docket No:

106290

I, a below named inventor, hereby declare that:

My residence, post office address and citizenship are as stated below next to my name; that I verily
believe that I am the original, first and sole inventor if only one inventor is listed below, or a joint
inventor if plural inventors are named below, of the invention entitled:

MULTIPLE DOWNCOMER FRACTIONAL DISTILLATION TRAY AND PROCESS

described and claimed in the specification which:
X is attached hereto, or

was filed on as:

Application No. , or

Express Mail No.

(as Application No. not yet known) and was amended on

(if applicable);

this application discloses and claims subject matter disclosed in earlier filed Application Serial No.
filed .

I hereby claim the benefit under Title 35, United States Code §120 of said prior United States
pfplication(s);

'I have reviewed and understand the contents of the specification, including the claims; that I acknowledge
my duty to disclose information of which I am aware which is material to patentability as defined in 37
CFR 1.56 and my duty to disclose information which became available between the filing date of the
prior application and the national or PCT international filing date of this application which is material to
patentability as defined in 37 CFR 1.56;

I hereby claim foreign priority benefits under Title 35, United States Code, §119 of any foreign
application(s) for patent or inventor's certificate listed below and have also identified below any foreign
application for patent or inventor's certificate having a filing date before that of the application on which
priority is claimed:

Prior Foreign Application(s) Priority Claimed

NONE [ ] [ ]

(Number) (Country) (Day/Mo./Yr. Filed) Yes No

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POWER OF ATTORNEY: As a named inventor, I hereby appoint the following attorneys and/or agents
to prosecute this application and transact all business in the Patent and Trademark Office connected
therewith:

JOHN G. TOLOMEI, Reg. No. 30,809
RICHARD E. CONSER, Reg. No. 34,09 1
JOHN G. CUTTS, JR., Reg. No. 27,866
JAMES W. HELLWEGE, Reg. No. 28,808
MARYANN MAAS, Reg. No. 38,954
THOMAS K. MC BRIDE, Reg. No. 24,535
FRANK S. MOLINARO, Reg. No. 32,710
MICHAEL A. MOORE, Reg. No. 41,203
JAMES C. PASCHALL, Reg. No. 36,887
JOHN F. SPEARS, JR., Reg. No. 27,392

SEND CORRESPONDENCE TO:

JOHN G. TOLOMEI
UOP LLC

PATENT DEPARTMENT

25 EAST ALGONQUIN ROAD

P.O. BOX 5017

DES PLAINES, IL 60017-5017

DIRECT TELEPHONE CALLS TO :
(name and telephone number)

Primary Attorney/Agent:

Alternate Attorney/Agent:

John F. Spears, Jr.
(847)391-2037
(847) 391-2387 (Fax)

John G. Tolomei
(847) 391-2027
(847) 391-2387 (Fax)

Washington Counsel:

James W. Hellwege
(703)205-8021

I hereby declare that all statements made herein of my own knowledge are true and that all statements
made on information and belief are believed to be true; and further that these statements were made with
the knowledge that willful false statements and the like so made are punishable by fine or imprisonment,
or both, under Section 1001 of Title 18 of the United States Code, and that such willful false statements
may jeopardize the validity of the application or any patent issuing thereon.

Full name of first inventor

Mohamed S. M. Shakur

Inventor's Signature

Date 10 /g'/p /

Country of Citizenship
Residence

Mailing Address

United States of America

Amherst, New York

UOP LLC

175 E. Park Drive

Tonawanda, NY 15150

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Full name of second inventor Joseph Agnello

Inventor's Signature
Date

Country of Citizenship
Residence

Mailing Address

Full name of third inventor

Inventor's Signature
Date

Country of Citizenship
Residence

Mailing Address

10 - M - Of

United States of America

Grand Island, New York

UOP LLC

175 E. Park Drive

Tonawanda, NY 15150

United States of America

Hamburg, New York

UOP LLC

175 E. Park Drive

Tonawanda, NY 15150

Full name of fourth inventor Nicholas F. Urbanski

Inventor's Signature ^td^an. $F MIrwJ^

Date (p4 OcJfficy ZOQ±

Country of Citizenship
Residence

United States of America

DePew, New York

Mailing Address

UOP LLC

175 E. Park Drive

Tonawanda, NY 15150

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